Mai Zetterling

Mai Elisabeth Zetterling ( May 24, 1925 – March 17, 1994) was a Swedish actress and film director. She began directing in the early 1960s, starting with political documentaries and a short film called The War Game (1962), which was nominated for a BAFTA award, and won a Silver Lion at Venice. Her first feature film Älskande par (1964, "Loving Couples"), based on the novels of Agnes von Krusenstjerna, was banned at the Cannes Film Festival for its sexual explicitness and nudity. Kenneth Tynan of The Observer later called it "one of the most ambitious debuts since Citizen Kane." It was not the only film she made that would stir up controversy for its frank sexuality (early pioneer on voyeurism). When critics reviewing her debut feature said that "Mai Zetterling directs like a man," she began to explore feminist themes more explicitly in her work. The Girls, which had an all-star Swedish cast including Bibi Andersson and Harriet Andersson, discussed women's liberation (or lack thereof) in a society controlled by men, as the protagonists compare their lives to characters in the play Lysistrata, and find that things have not progressed very much for women since ancient times.

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Dettaglio della persona

Mai Zetterling

Filmografia

Nu börjar livet

Chi ha paura delle streghe?

Ett dockhem

Minns ni?

L'agenda nascosta

Sangue ribelle

Musica nel buio

Spasimo

The Traitor

Sesso, peccato e castità

Frida l’amante straniera

Un pizzico di follia

Faces in the Dark

Passioni

La settima onda

The Master Builder

L'uomo che morì tre volte

Colpo sensazionale

Oro

Blackmailed

I disperati

Sellers' Best

Fördom & stolthet – en queer filmhistoria

Piccadilly Third Stop

Jag dräpte

The Romantic Age

Visions of Eight

The Main Attraction

The Lost People

Hell Is Sold Out

L'uomo dai cento volti

Nebbie del passato

Jet Storm

Dance Little Lady

Prins Gustaf

Tall Headlines

Iris fiore del Nord

The Making of 'Hidden Agenda'

Vielleicht bin ich wirklich eine Zauberin

Lek på regnbågen

Lianbron

The Truth About Women

The Bad Lord Byron

Vi har många namn

Lords of Little Egypt: Mai Zetterling Among the Gypsies

The Bay of St. Michel

Morfars resa

Lasse-Maja

Mon cœur est rouge

Stulet nyår

Regissören: En film om Mai Zetterling

Möte med Mai

Calling the Shots

Mai Zetterling's Stockholm

The Polite Invasion

Studio One

Interpol Calling

The Third Man

Svenska noveller

Film '72

One Pair of Eyes

Armchair Theatre

Gioco pericoloso

Giochi di notte

Scrubbers

Älskande par

Dr. Glas

Amorosa

The War Game

Love

Le ragazze

Of Seals and Men

Vincent the Dutchman

Sunday Pursuit

Månen är en grön ost